New Tricks - Season 11 - Eps 8: The English Defence
While investigating the murder of 55 year-old interpreter Agnes Bradley, the UCOS team get a partial DNA match from a teenage boy who once threw a brick onto a motorway as a dare. They interview the boy to see if one of his male relations could be the murderer, only to discover that his mother was raped and they could be looking for a rapist-turned-murderer. Agnes was a chess enthusiast so Gerry Standing and Steve McAndrew interview members of her local club while Sasha Miller and Strickland investigate leads from Agnes’s working life, where they meet a Chilean diplomat with a possible axe to grind. Steve McAndrew’s elderly father is dying, so he brings him to a London hospice for his last days.
About New Tricks
Title: New Tricks
First Air Date: 2004-01-01
Last Air Date: 2015-09-29
Status: Ended
Rating: 7.4/10 (from 56 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 13
Total Episodes: 107
Network: BBC One
Genres: Drama, Comedy
Production Companies: Wall to Wall, BBC
Synopsis
New Tricks is a British comedy-drama that follows the work of the fictional Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad of the Metropolitan Police Service. Originally led by Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman, it is made up of retired police officers who have been recruited to reinvestigate unsolved crimes.
Cast
Dennis Waterman
Gerry Standing
Tamzin Outhwaite
Sasha Miller
Denis Lawson
Steve McAndrew
Nicholas Lyndhurst
Danny Griffin
